Re: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread Marshall Dudley
Elaine wrote: I'm new to the list and would like to know if anyone has used colloidal silver as a heartworm preventative for dogs. We have to Bichon Frise boys and don't want to give them the traditional monthly treatments: They haven't had any for about five years now, but I do worry that

Re: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread bbanever
Elaine, I have a 7 year old Bichon... I've never given him any heartworm medication and he's just fine. He's never been sick a day in his life I stopped all vaccinations (with the exception of rabies) 4 years ago. CS will kill any single celled organism it comes in contact with...

RE: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread Dave and Gwlynda Irek
Elaine, I give my bulldogs and labs CS every morning for their first bowl of drinking water. My understanding with CS is it kills parasites, fungus, and bacteria on contact. Dogs get heartworms from mosquitoes and I'm not sure that CS would help prevent heartworms disease. If you have allot of

Re: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread Rich Adams
- Original Message - But, I can't find anything online that discusses treating dogs with it to prevent heartworm and other parasites. Probably because no one has shown it (EIS) to be effective in preventing/killing adult or juvenile heartworm. Preventing carrying mosquitoes from

Re: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread Sally Khanna
I give my horses diatomaceous earth as a natural wormer. A lot of horsemen do the same. Sally bbanever bbane...@earthlink.net wrote: Elaine, I have a 7 year old Bichon... I've never given him any heartworm medication and he's just fine. He's never been sick a day in his life I stopped

Re: CSHeartworm treatment

2005-04-21 Thread Marshalee
Hi, Elaine, Well, I read that microfilaria are one-celled organisms, and as such, CS ought to nail them. We don`t have much heartworm in Utah, but even so my 3 Pugs get CS in their water, or occasionally a bowl of straight CS. So far so good. Marshalee I'm new to the list and would like to